[NC10] New Ubuntu repository for our favourite netbook!

[voria]

New 'gnome-power-manager' package on the repository.
Here is the changelog:

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gnome-power-manager (2.24.2-2ubuntu9~ppa4~nc10~jaunty) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Removed "90-Add-guarded-brightness-stepping-functions.patch" and
    "91-Using-guarded-and-scaled-stepping-when-dimming.patch"
  * Added "brightness-down-fix.patch"
    (more info at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569100)

This fixes the problem with brightness applet reported by janitor.

[voria]

New 'alsa-modules' packages on the repository.
Here is the changelog:

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alsa-driver (1.0.20~ppa1~nc10~jaunty) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Updated alsa sources to version 1.0.20.
  * Applied 'alsa20090509-add-nc10-support.patch' (thanks to Chris Pockelé)

More info about the Chris' patch here.

[voria]

The new alsa drivers seem to work bad with the current available pulseaudio.
For this reason, I reverted 'alsa-modules' to version 1.0.18 on the repository.

[voria]

I'm testing the latest pulseaudio version (0.9.15) and it seems to work good with alsa-1.0.20 (with Chris' patch applied). I'll probably add it to the repository in a few days.

If anyone wants to do some tests too, both alsa-1.0.20 and pulseaudio-0.9.15 are available on my other repository.
Please do not add this repository on your sources.list permanently. I use it for experiments/tests, and often it contains broken packages.

[JMFTheVCI]

I have used your ppa for a while now. but Fn-F9 still does not work.
I have the backports installed and NC10-scripts.
I can "sudo wlonoff.sh" and this works and works without a password prompt.
Fn-F9 does not.
xev does show the correct content of Fn-F9 as in page 6 of this forum.
Just not working for me.

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Just found the answer under an individual thread.
I needed to enable the "commands" compiz plugin.
All working. Excellent stuff.
Is the lack of webcam fixed in the .30 kernel yet?

[voria]

Is the lack of webcam fixed in the .30 kernel yet?

Unfortunately, it's not yet fixed.
I'm doing some tests, and it seems that the webcam was broken with version 2.6.30-rc1. It works good with 2.6.29.4.

[Mat]

Is the lack of webcam fixed in the .30 kernel yet?

Unfortunately, it's not yet fixed.
I'm doing some tests, and it seems that the webcam was broken with version 2.6.30-rc1. It works good with 2.6.29.4.

I gave the .30 kernel a try, and had problems with it :

touchpad becoming "jumpy" and having the following logs in /var/log/messages :

psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1
bytes away.


had also a message referring to a callback or something like this (don't remember exactly)

==> I reverted back to .28


P.S : thanks for the PPA, the Fn keys work like a charm
P.S 2 : I have a N110 and not a NC10

[voria]

I gave the .30 kernel a try, and had problems with it :

touchpad becoming "jumpy" and having the following logs in /var/log/messages :

psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1
bytes away.


had also a message referring to a callback or something like this (don't remember exactly)

P.S 2 : I have a N110 and not a NC10

I'm sorry, I can't help you.
I don't know if NC10 and N110 have the same touchpad. I suppose they are different, because I have no problem with it on my NC10 with kernel 2.6.30.
My suggestion is to file a new bug on kernel bugzilla against kernel 2.6.30, pasting all the info from dmesg related to your touchpad.

[Mat]

I'm sorry, I can't help you.
I don't know if NC10 and N110 have the same touchpad. I suppose they are different, because I have no problem with it on my NC10 with kernel 2.6.30.
My suggestion is to file a new bug on kernel bugzilla against kernel 2.6.30, pasting all the info from dmesg related to your touchpad.

can you copy/paste info about your touchpad here? (lspci, lsusb, dmesg.. I don't know yet where to find them, will have a look at it tonight)
I'd like to check if the touchpad is the same

[voria]

From 'dmesg':

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[    9.842315] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04731/0xa40000
[    9.893950] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input9

[Mat]

From 'dmesg':

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[    9.842315] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04731/0xa40000
[    9.893950] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input9

mine :

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[    9.778911] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04711/0xa00000
[    9.824740] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input9

what's strange is that the problem is gone..
2 things changed : you updated the kernel in the repository, and I tested the "old" .30 on a fresh xubuntu 9.04 and not an ubuntu (but I doubt it changes anything)

[voria]

Looking at the changelog from version 2.6.30-rc8 to version 2.6.30-final, I don't see any important change related to the touchpad...
well, this is a mystery that will remain

[NSCX2005]

do you know how I can get Compiz working with Ubuntu 9.0.4 on NC10?

[voria]

It should work out of the box, just enable it through System->Preferences->Appearance.

[NSCX2005]

Thanks voRia.

One thing I would like to ask, do you if it is possible to make a Kubuntu 9.10 Persistent pen drive?

I have been trying to make a pen drive version to test out the Alpha 4 release.

Please can you help me or direct me to somewhere that this has been done.

Thank you for your time

All the best

NSCX2005